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May 31, 2008

G58: Red Sox 6, Orioles 3

Manny Ramirez hit his 500th career home run -- a bomb to right-center off Chad Bradford -- in the seventh inning.

David Ortiz left the game during his ninth inning at-bat after injuring his left hand during a swing. Sean Casey finished the at-bat. In comments, ish reports: "sprained wrist. day to day. X-Rays negative."

Fairly Useless Info: Lugo is 4-for-8 against Olson. ... Adam Jones is 4-for-5 against Lester. ... In the last six games, Red Sox pitchers have a 2.47 ERA, with opponents hitting .229/.279/.318. ... The Red Sox are 20-2 in games where they lead after four innings.

"A tornado watch is in effect until 5 PM for the metropolitan areas of Washington DC and Baltimore ... The remnants of the thunderstorm complex will move across metropolitan areas of Baltimore and Washington DC before noon ... Additional severe storms are expected to develop ahead of the cold front later this afternoon and affect the area through 5 PM. Severe thunderstorms will be capable of producing wind gusts of 60 mph or greater and large hail. Tornadoes are also possible especially along and east of the Interstate 95 corridor."

Oop. Also in that SOSH post:"Tonight: Occasional showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8 PM. Some storms could be severe, with large hail and damaging winds.Low around 68. West wind between 9 and 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms."

I am not totally against a rainout. Turns out the overnight person who comes in at 8 PM is not coming in, so after 8 PM, it is only me in here. The likelihood of not being bothered during the game is slim.

Playing tomorrow afternoon -- when I have two co-workers -- and making tonight's game up later in the year would be fine too.

T'was good. We did about as much touristy stuff as is humanly possible to do in just one day. Off the top of my head, stops included:

-Grand Central Station-The UN (did a tour)-some Italian restaurant (I think Michael's Cafe) near the UN that served a mean pepperoni-and-sausage pizza-Paley Center (Museum of TV & Radio), saw a reel of iconic commercials from the 50s and 60s, an episode of All in the Family, and a documentary about major breaking news events narrated by Walter Cronkite-Strolled through Central Park - saw the zoo, but it was closed-A few fancy stores on 5th avenue (until I got nauseous) -The official NHL + NBA stores-FAO Schwartz-NBC studios-Times sq. including the M&Ms store... yum...-went into the ESPN Zone, found out that they were doing a $10 per person per hour minimum, so bailed-dinner at Planet Hollywood

It was a fun time overall, although Amanda really gets uncomfortable with huge crowds bumping into her (a little bit of claustrophobia I think) so Friday Night at Times Sq. became a bit of an ordeal.

My feet hurt from all the walking - that's the way I like it, though. :)

I was debating on whether to be selfish or not. I've got to go out in a few minutes to do a DJ gig tonight. I was hoping manny wouldn't hit 500 tonight. however....jere is there. I hope he rips 500. 501. and 502. and LBJ breaks remy's record.

"Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win, we've got Pedro coming back today and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Sox win this game."